Indian Creek Ranch is about 91 homes at Kuna Road and Stroebel Road, from 0.143 acres up to three quarters of an acre. On the larger parcels there is room for a ground-mount array, and a ground mount has soiling problems a roof array never has.
A roof array is high, out of the splash zone and above most airborne grit. A ground-mount array sits at exactly the height where sprinkler heads throw, where mowing throws clippings, where gravel dust from a driveway settles, and where rain splashes soil up off the ground onto the lower row of panels. On an acreage property with a gravel approach, that lower row can be genuinely filthy while the top row looks acceptable, and the string wiring means the worst panel affects its neighbours.
Untreated Boise-Kuna canal water carrying suspended silt and dissolved mineral is what feeds the irrigation here, and a ground mount within sprinkler throw gets hit directly and repeatedly. That mineral dries onto hot glass and sets far harder than it would on a window, and it is the single most common reason an established ground-mount array underperforms its specification. It is also entirely preventable by moving the heads, which we will identify at no charge.
Vehicles on a gravel approach generate plumes of coarse mineral dust that coat whatever is at ground level in one pass, and field operations nearby do the same. Coarse dust on a panel is dangerous as much as costly, because any attempt to wipe or brush it drags sand-sized particles across the anti-reflective coating and scratches it permanently. Ground-mount arrays are also the ones owners are most tempted to clean themselves, precisely because they are reachable.
Panels are flooded with pure deionized water, which dries leaving nothing behind, with nothing abrasive on the coating and no soap used. We handle roof and ground-mount arrays, and it is worth telling us which you have and whether your array is within sprinkler throw when you book, since that changes both the job and the advice. Solar panel cleaning is quoted by array size.
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Considerably. A ground mount sits at exactly the height where sprinklers throw, mowers throw clippings, gravel dust settles and rain splashes soil up off the ground, so the lower row can be filthy while the top row looks acceptable.
Most commonly baked-on canal mineral. A ground mount within sprinkler throw gets hit directly and repeatedly by untreated canal water, and that mineral dries on hot glass and sets hard. It is preventable by moving the heads, which we identify free of charge.
Please do not, and reachability is exactly the trap. Gravel dust is coarse mineral, and wiping or brushing drags sand-sized particles across the anti-reflective coating and scratches it permanently, which costs more output than the dust was costing.
It can. Panels are wired in strings, so a heavily soiled or shaded panel can drag down the ones connected to it, which is why a filthy lower row on a ground mount matters more than its share of the total surface would suggest.
Yes. Tell us which you have and whether the array is within sprinkler throw when you book, because it changes the job and the advice. Quoting is by array size after we look at the mounting and the access.
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